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As the writer Dermot McEvoy notes, Ryan has "the so sincere, so phony air of a gloomy Irish undertaker standing outside the funeral parlor where you've come to plant your mother, shaking his head consolingly and giving you that firm two-handed Irish handshake".
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He had many important jobs but no phony airs.
Trump went on to complain about a "phony" Cruz ad airing in Nevada that accuses Trump of wanting to leave the state's federal lands in the hands of the government.
But that louche bounder, Leslie White, is such a phony, with his studied airs and transparent line of seduction, that his astounding success with all manner and class of women — Quirke's rebellious daughter, Phoebe, among them — reduces these otherwise interesting characters to idiots.
The network apologized in its evening news program for airing the phony report, produced with a home DVD camera by Zi Beijia, a temporary employee, that aired on Beijing TV-7, its Lifestyle Channel.
If people think you're phony or putting on airs, they'll be able to tell from a mile away.
As part of the scheme, the authorities said, one defendant, Shane Ramsundar, 50, masqueraded as an agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement on loan to the F.B.I., carrying an air gun, a phony badge and a false ID card.
Another phony ad from Hillary Clinton.
And in a 2009 clip, Sharron Angle, the Republican Senate candidate from Nevada, suggested that autism — a word she uttered with air quotes — is a phony rubric.
Rob Johnson, a former Dewhurst chief of staff who is now in charge of the Texas Conservatives Fund, said he would continue to raise money and air advertisements to make sure that voters know "Ted Cruz is a conservative phony".
Would you trust your country's air-defense system to a computer that relies on Bayesian statistics to distinguish real threats from phony ones?
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